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Martha Allard
Active Gold Member (20+Years)
Martha J Allard has been a member of Flint Area Writers for forty years. In that time, they have learned the value of critique god and compassionate. They have served as Vice President and Secretary, both badly. They write of unexpected love and magic, monsters in search of redemption, demons and angels and people who live in shadow. Their short fiction has appeared in magazines like "Talebones" and "Not One of Us". “Their story "Dust" won an honorable mention in "Year's Best Science Fiction," 19th edition, edited by Gardener Dozois and their story, "Phase" was nominated for a British Science Fiction Award. They were the editor of "Nice Tattoo, the Magazine of Shadow Fiction," and co-editor of the short story collection “Out Of The Green", "Tales From Fairyland.” Their nonfiction has appeared in the anthologies "Lend the Eye a Terrible Aspect" and "Deaths Garden." Their novel, "Black Light" is a tale of love, sacrifice and rock and roll in the 1980's. “Psychic Surgery” is a collection of stories that spans the last twenty five years.
Published Works
This is a collection of stories about being lost, and being found. They are myths retold through the lens of a new century. Here you’ll find a koi-girl and her grandfather, living in a stream in the mountains of Tennessee, waiting to become more. There are a pair of bickering celestials in a dive bar that exists in any city in the world, at any given time. A guardian of the moon, out of a job, and trying to care for his daughter the best he can on the streets of Flint Michigan. Angels, fairies, vampires, and junkies fill these pages, but most of all, magic.
Los Angeles, 1983. Trace Dellon knows exactly what he wants: the white heat of the spotlight. When his band Black Light is offered a record deal, Trace grabs for it. He will do anything to make it. Bass player Asia Heyes knows what he wants, too. It’s not fame or the adoration of groupies. It’s Trace. It’s always been Trace. Though it’s been unspoken between them, Trace’s other lovers—his audience—push Asia aside. With the record contract, Albrecht Christian comes into their lives. He has everything but what he needs to live: the energy that runs just under Trace’s skin. When everything crashes with a bullet, they all learn the truth. Rock and roll, like magic, requires both love and sacrifice.
“Once the moon was a beautiful woman who lived in a land of starlight.”
So begins this trilogy of short stories. They are about being lost and being found. They are myths retold through the lens of the new century. In "Phase" the moon was once a beautiful woman whose daughter wanders the streets of a dying industrial town in the mid-west. "Scales" is about a fish who turns into a girl to find true love, and "Dust" is the story of Tinkerbell after the pixie dust is all gone.
Re.new.al (noun)
1) Resuming an activity after an interruption, or
2) Extending a contract, subscription or license, or
3) Replacing or repairing something that is worn out, run-down, or broken, or
4) Rebirth after death.
Four definitions to spark inspiration, a limitless number of stories to be conceived. Only 110 made the cut.
Thrilling to hopeful, Renewal features 300-word speculative fiction ficlets about sexual and gender minorities to entice readers.
Welcome to Renewal.
Though people have been exploring the legend of the vampire for hundreds of years, the female vampire has been largely overlooked...until now.
Neophyte Press proudly presents Re-Vamped: Blood Lust Revenge, a collection of short stories focused on fanged girls of the night with a taste for human blood and a penchant for power, seduction and terror.
Find your favorite turtleneck and sink your teeth into this monster of a collection. You're in store for some long, dark nights filled with beautiful, hungry creatures. But don't cry when you find yourself with two perfectly round puncture wounds on your neck...
‘Cause you've been warned.